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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 17, 2005
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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA
Real-time GOES
Sounder DPI Viewed on AWIPS at CIMSS: Following months of
software research as well as collaboration with staff at the Forecast
Systems Laboratory (FSL) in Colorado, among others, the Advanced
Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) workstation at the
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) has
successfully been used to display the actual Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES) Sounder Derived Product Imagery (DPI)
that is available to National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters in
their offices. In parallel with the current effort among branches
of the NESDIS Office of Research and Applications (ORA) and the
Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) to provide
the NWS with an improved and higher resolution single field-of-view
(SFOV) GOES Sounder DPI suite, this real-time AWIPS capability is
highly advantageous for ORA and CIMSS scientists to be able to monitor
and verify the new DPI that are being made available to the NWS as well
as to aid in provision of training in the AWIPS environment.
Researchers at CIMSS are now becoming able to see exactly what the NWS
forecasters are seeing, and to see how can use the GOES Sounder SFOV
DPI of moisture, stability, and cloud information. (G. S. Wade,
E/RA2, 608-263-4743; S. T. Wanzong, CIMSS, 608-263-1950)
Polar Wind Data
Improves Antarctic Forecasts with the Weather Research and Forecasting
(WRF) Model: At the June 8-10 meeting of the Antarctic Mesoscale
Prediction System (AMPS) Users Workshop, held jointly with the
Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Annual Meeting and the Antarctic
Meteorological Research Center Annual Meeting at Byrd Polar Research
Center of the Ohio State University, Jordan Powers (National Center for
Atmospheric Research) reported that assimilating the Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) polar winds in the Weather
Research and Forecasting (WRF) model improved forecasts of an extreme
wind event at McMurdo, Antarctica. However, the study
demonstrated the importance of filtering (or "blacklisting")
the MODIS wind data by height and surface type, similar to
what is done at other numerical weather prediction centers. (J.
Key, E/RA2,
608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov, M. Lazzara, SSEC)
ITEMS
FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
Abstracts Submitted
for the GOES-R Symposium at the AMS Annual Meeting: Three
abstracts have been submitted for the Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Symposium at the 2006 American
Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. This
symposium is joint with the 14th Satellite conference. The titles are
"GOES-R Data Dissemination", "Infrared measurements from the
Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) on GOES-R" and "The ABI
(Advanced Baseline Imager) on GOES-R". (T. Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
Other Meetings and Telecons:
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